9 My sight faileth for ve-ry trouble:

Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched forth my hands un-to-thee.

10 Dost thou shew wonders a-mong the dead:

Or shall the dead rise up a-gain, and praise thee? 11 Shall thy loving-kindness be shewed in the grave: Or thy faithful-ness in de-struction?

12 Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark :

And thy righteousness in the land where all things are for-gotten?

13 Unto thee have I cried, O Lord:

And early shall my prayer come be-fore thee.

14 Lord, why abhorrest thou my soul:

And hidest thou thy face from me?

15 I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die: Even from my youth up thy terrors have I suffered with a trou-bled mind.

16 Thy wrathful displeasure goeth o-ver me:

And the fear of thee hath un-done.me.

17 They came round about me daily like water : And compassed me to-gether on eve-ry side.

18 My lovers and friends hast thou put a-way from me : And hid mine ac-quaintance out of my sight.

MY

Evening Prayer.

PSALM LXXXIX. Misericordias Domini.

song shall be alway of the loving-kindness of the Lord : With my mouth will I ever be shewing thy truth from one gene-ra-tion to an-other.

2 For I have said, Mercy shall be set up for ever :

Thy truth shalt thou stab-lish in the heavens.

3 I have made a covenant with

my chosen :

I have sworn un-to David my servant;

4 Thy seed will I stablish for ever:

And set up thy throne from one gene-ra-tion to an-other. 5 O Lord, the very heavens shall praise thy won-drous works: And thy truth in the congre-ga-tion of the saints.

6 For who is he a-mong the clouds:

That shall be com-pared un-to the Lord?

7 And what is he a-mong the gods :

That shall be like un-to the Lord?

8 God is very greatly to be feared in the council of the saints: And to be had in reverence of all them that are round a-bout him.

9 O Lord God of hosts, who is like un-to thee: Thy truth, most mighty Lord, is on ev-ery side. 10 Thou rulest the raging of the sea:

Thou stillest the waves there-of when they a-rise. 11 Thou hast subdued Egypt, and de-stroyed it:

Thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy might-y arm. 12 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine:

Thou hast laid the foundation of the round world, and all that there-in is.

13 Thou hast made the north and the south:

Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy Name.

14 Thou hast a might-y arm:

Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

15 Righteousness and equity are the habitation of thy seat: Mercy and truth shall go be-fore thy face.

16 Blessed is the people, O Lord, that can re-joice in thee: They shall walk in the light of thy countenance.

17 Their delight shall be daily in thy Name:

And in thy righteousness shall they make their boast.

18 For thou art the glory of their strength :

And in thy loving-kindness thou shalt lift up our horns.

19 For the Lord is our de-fence:

The Holy One of Is-rael is our King.

20 Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints, and saidst : I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

21 I have found David my servant:

With my holy oil have I an-oint-ed him.

22 My hand shall hold him fast :

And my arm shall strength-en him.

23 The enemy shall not be able to do him violence: The son of wicked-ness shall not hurt him.

24 I will smite down his foes be-fore his face: And plague them that hate him.

25 My truth also and my mercy shall be with him: And in my Name shall his horn be ex-alted.

26 I will set his dominion also in the sea: And his right hand in the floods.

27 He shall call me, Thou art my father
My God, and my strong sal-vation.
28 And I will make him my firstborn :
Higher than the kings of the earth.

29 My mercy will I keep for e-ver-more :
And my covenant shall stand fast with him.

30 His seed also will I make to en-dure for ever : And his throne as the days of heaven.

31 But if his children for-sake my

law:

And walk not in my judgements;

32 If they break my statutes, and keep not my com-mandments: I will visit their offences with the rod, and their sin with

scourges.

33 Nevertheless, my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him:

Nor suffer my truth to fail.

34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips:

I have sworn once by my holiness, that I will not fail David. 35 His seed shall en-dure for ever:

And his seat is like as the sun be-fore me.

36 He shall stand fast for evermore as the moon :

And as the faith-ful witness in heaven.

37 But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine An-ointed: And art dis-pleas-ed at him.

38 Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant :

And cast his crown to the ground.

39 Thou hast overthrown all his hedges:

And broken down his strong holds.

40 All they that go by spoil him:

And he is become a re-proach to his neighbours. 41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies : And made all his adver-saries to re-joice. 42 Thou hast taken away the edge of his sword : And givest him not victo-ry in the battle.

43 Thou hast put out his glory:

And cast his throne down to the ground. 44 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: And covered him with dis-honour.

45 Lord, how long wilt thou hide thy-self, for ever : And shall thy wrath burn like fire?

46 O remember how short my time is:

Wherefore hast thou made all men for nought? 47 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death: And shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hell? 48 Lord, where are thy old lov-ing-kindnesses :

Which thou swarest unto Da-vid in thy truth?

49 Remember, Lord, the rebuke that thy ser-vants have:

And how I do bear in my bosom the re-bukes of ma-ny people;

50 Wherewith thine enemies have blasphemed thee, and slandered the footsteps of thine An-ointed:

Praised be the Lord for evermore.

DAY 18.]

A-men, and A-n
-men.

Morning Prayer.

PSALM XC. Domine, refugium.

ORD, thou hast been our refuge :

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made:

Thou art God from everlasting, and world with-out end. 3 Thou turnest man to de-struction:

Again thou sayest, Come a-gain, ye children of men.

4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday : Seeing that is past as a watch in the night.

and withered.

5 As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep: And fade away sudden-ly like the grass. 6 In the morning it is green, and grow-eth up: But in the evening it is cut down, dri-ed up, 7 For we consume away in thy dis-pleasure: And are afraid at thy wrath-ful in-dig-nation. 8 Thou hast set our mis-deeds be-fore thee:

And our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

9 For when thou art angry all our days are gone:

We bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. 10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to four-score

years:

Yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it a-way, and we are gone.

11 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath :

For even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy dis-pleasure.

12 O teach us to number our days:

That we may apply our hearts un-to wisdom.

13 Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last :

And be gracious un-to thy servants.

14 O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon:

So shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

15 Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us. And for the years wherein we have suf-fer-ed ad-versity.

16 Shew thy servants thy work :

And their chil-dren thy glory.

17 And the glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be up-on-us : Prosper thou the work of our hands upon us, O prosper thou our hand-y-work.

PSALM XCI. Qui habitat.

W shall abide under the shadow of the Al-mighty.

HOSO dwelleth under the defence of the most High :

2 I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope, and my strong hold:

My God, in him will I trust.

3 For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter: And from the noi-some pestilence.

4 He shall defend thee under his wings, and thou shalt be safe under his feathers :

His faithfulness and truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night:

Nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

6 For the pestilence that walketh in darkness:

Nor the sickness that de-stroy-eth in the noon day.

7 A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand:

But it shall not come nigh thee.

8 Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou be-hold:

And see the re-ward of the un-godly.

9 For thou, Lord, art my hope :

Thou hast set thine house of de-fe⚫nce ve-ry high.

10 There shall no evil happen un-to thee:

Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 11 For he shall give his angels charge o-ver thee: To keep thee in all thy ways.

12 They shall bear thee in their hands:

That thou hurt not thy foot a-gainst a stone.

13 Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder :

The young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet.

14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I de-liver him:

I will set him up, because he hath known my Name.

15 He shall call upon me, and I will hear him :

Yea, I am with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and bring him to honour.

16 With long life will I satis-fy him:

And shew him my sal-vation.